In the first years of commercial television in #Australia there was a lot of discussion about how much advertising was acceptable. In the end, the government regulated a certain amount of minutes per hour of programming.
Why, then, do we have to put up with constant intrusive advertising on the internet?
@7dfc084c Dutton wants to pump new life into the old and tired colonialism of "Keep the natives (ugh!) in check or they might rise up and take back what we stole."
#auspol #Voice
@0ecd8d1a@4183a04c@3a447f2a Swan did a good job of interpreting what was happening at the beginning of the pandemic, but that doesn't mean he can't be wrong on other topics.
@6b3caab6@00b07ccb Yes. Or even substituting "the flow of profit" makes it clear that it's an economy run for the benefit of shareholders, that assumes that what's good for shareholders is good for all of us.
@c0f00411 Not surprised #climate scientists are resorting to the vernacular. Sober expressions like "Red Alert" seem to have no impact.
But where do we go after "gobsmackingly bananas"?
#climateScience #ClimateMessaging
@ed72a998 Who do you mean by "us"? Posts like this need to identify the area of the globe they apply to and also not assume that all readers are from that area. Thanks.
@630be9a4 I know I should but I hate seeing a doctor after the symptoms have gone away. They're so dismissive. "Come back if it happens again" then they put their hand out for their fee.
@02439a38@8388665a I'm not sure it is irrelevant, since the message of the post is that genius can have a woman's face, and be a woman who is otherwise quite ordinary. It's quite ordinary for a woman to be a mother. The kind of people who witheld support for her career may well have thought of motherhood as a factor in their decision, whereas fatherhood is never seen as a reason to discriminate against men.
@cfda352e There's no substitute for the comfort of sitting near a heat source, though. I've got ducted aircon and insulated walls but I still sometimes turn on a column heater and place it near me, for that feeling of toastiness.
@73e47efb That "declaration of war" statement was about the last thing that needed to be said. The Uluru statement is the very opposite of a declaration of war.
Whose interests does Mundine think he's serving by such an outrageous utterance?
@630be9a4 It dropped back to normal. I didn't get dizzy and I'm okay this morning. Thanks for your advice though. I was confident the nurses of the Fediverse would come to my aid.
I live close to Flinders Medical Centre but South Australia still has a serious ramping problem.
@be314b31 Seems to be a human trait that, if a person doesn't understand what's happening, or the cause of something, they'll explain it in terms of something they do know.
This is particularly a problem when said person is certain they're right.
Thus we still have conspiracy theories, superstitions and, as you say, religious beliefs, at a time when more science is more available than ever before.
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